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9The Character Sheet for ''Manga/TokyoESP''.
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13!! Heroes (Part 1)
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15[[folder:Rinka]]
16!!'''Rinka Urushiba'''
17->Voiced by: Creator/IbukiKido (Japanese), Creator/SarahWiedenheft (English)
18
19The female lead, she was touched by the glowing fish and became an [[IntangibleMan Intangible Girl]].
20----
21* ActionGirl: Even before gaining her powers, she was capable of man-handling multiple thugs.
22* AdaptationDyeJob: While Rinka in the manga is a albino from the start, her portrayal in the anime gives her naturally brown hair and eyes that change to white and red, respectively, only when she activates her ESP.
23* BadassNormal: Even before getting the fish, Rinka was an amazing martial artist. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, she's once again this, as Peggy ends up consuming all the fish.]]
24* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Whenever she gets the hell beat out of her it shows for chapters after that fact.
25* BigEater: She talks about food a lot and shows especial enthusiasm when presented meals, though this may factor more into her poverty and lack of money.
26* BreakTheCutie: The author hates her for the sheer amount of things he puts her through...
27* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler: At the very end. Sure, everyone has lost their ESP...but that functionally means she's Queen of the Hill in terms of fighting prowess, since not even Claudia or Minami could take her without their powers. Given the fact she's now working in her dad's detective agency, it's very likely she'll get to use all the skills she learned.]]
28* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Loses her ESP after dying for a few minutes in Chapter 18. [[BroughtDownToBadass She eventually remembers that her martial arts abilities have very little to do with her power, and starts training again]]]].
29* BullyHunter: She comes across someone bullying and has to intervene.
30** ButForMeItWasTuesday: Heroic inversion. Rinka saved Azuma from thugs six months before the story began and then promptly forgot about it.
31* CrossCounter: Her favored tactic. Unlike most versions, however, she always comes out unscathed thanks to her intangibility, while her opponents are hit with both the power of her kick and their own forward momentum.
32* CruelToBeKind: How Rinka was forced to fight in the arena. Her usual tactics, knocking people out in a single strike, would always end up with the spectators calling for blood and getting the opponents killed, so she has to be needlessly cruel in her methods of disabling them, leaving them brutally mauled, but alive. [[spoiler:When she can't, her EnemyWithin does it for her.]]
33* {{Determinator}}: She does not give up easily, and given how [[BreakTheCutie the story]] goes, it's a good thing.
34* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Essentially what she is for the entirety of the story, [[spoiler: besides the points where her powers are gone.]] Her ability to phase through solid objects is rarely useful against the plethora of other ESP users Rinka needs to fight, but one thing they do is allow her to even the playing field - traditional weapons don't phase her at all, meaning her opponents need to get into close combat with her, which she excels in. That being said, creative application of her powers allows Rinka to pull off some neat tricks mid-fight, such as [[spoiler: phasing in and out of an elevator to ambush the one person who is nearly equal to her in hand-to-hand combat]] and phasing her own melee weapons through her body to catch enemies behind her off-guard.
35* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:The CIA ''gave'' Rinka one so she could infiltrate the fight club. By performing a certain gesture, her heart and mind go to a dark place to eliminate any doubt she has and fools telepaths. Only, it doesn't exactly go away after the 1 hour period like it was supposed to...]]
36** SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler:Her darkness took over during one of her arena fights and instantly went for the win against an esper who could control her with her eyes by inflicting both EyeScream and a GroinAttack on them, and then leaving them to burn in a fire.]]
37* FamedInStory: By the last third of the manga, [[spoiler: pretty much everyone has nothing but nice or fearful things to say about her, and Ren is outright ''surprised'' when Rinka suggests that someone might have ESP she can't handle.]]
38* FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler: With Kobushi by the final third of the manga. The two have nothing but respect for each other after having spent the entire manga saving each other's hides and bickering.]]
39* ForcedPrizefight: [[spoiler:She's been involved in this for the last year as of Part 2 while working undercover for the CIA.]]
40* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: More sincere at first, later on she'd really really like Azuma to be.
41* TheHero: She's the main protagonist of the series, and a very heroic one to boot.
42* HopeBringer: In Part 1. [[spoiler:When she "attacked" the statesman, a lot of people felt betrayed.]]
43* IdiotHero: She has her moments.
44* InUniverseNickname: "White Girl," due to her hair.
45* [[IntangibleMan Intangible Girl]]: Her ability lets her phase through everything, including her clothes.
46* KickChick: She specializes in kicking attacks, though the martial art she's trained in (Eskrima) also includes punches, grabs, throws, stick-fighting and the use of improvised weapons. In fact, she's ''too'' specialized, before Master Yoda and her father beat that out of her and teach her "Close Panda Combat," which includes more of the grappling and disabling techniques.
47* LogicalWeakness: One that holds her back during the final attack on the ARES PMC; while her intangibility evens the playing field against ''most'' opponents, allowing Rinka to phase through anything inorganic, it does nothing to protect Rinka from getting hit by organic material. Dionysus Plants, whose ESP can easily be ascertained [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin by reading her name,]] is able to take Rinka out of the fight almost immediately; as a PlantPerson, everything Dionysus Plants fights with ''is'' fully organic, meaning that simply slamming Rinka into the floor with root structure and covering the ground beneath her in more root structure leaves her utterly helpless.
48* MadeOfIron: Early on, Rinka takes a lot of punishment as she learns the ropes of her powers and commits herself to using them to aid others. As the story progresses and Rinka gets into more fights, she naturally becomes more durable and capable of taking hits. Her fight with [[spoiler:Nadja in the climax of part 2 is ''brutal'' for both sides, and ends with Rinka having taken several attacks that would have broken her legs or just outright killed her if she'd been through the same fight in part 1.]]
49* MsFanservice: The anime really loves bringing attention to her athletic body, such as an extended scene of her being naked.
50* MeteorMove: [[CallingYourAttacks SKULL CRUSHING PSY-KICK!]]
51* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Chapter 18 has a heartbreaking one.]]
52* PerpetualPoverty: Due to her father having no job, Rinka is pretty close to this.
53* PowerPerversionPotential: She can phase through solid objects, and until she learns to control her powers falls through her clothing a few times.
54* ReassignedToAntarctica: Quite literally in chapter 75 thanks to a combination of Kuroi Claudia's powers and TheMagicGoesAway.
55* SheCleansUpNicely: Wears a dress for the first time on her date with Azuma. A cheap one, but he compliments her on it the next day.
56* ShowerOfAngst: Has a brief one in Chapter 21.
57* VitriolicBestBuds: With Kobushi in Part 2.
58* WorldsBestWarrior: By the end of the story, it's a stiff competition between Kobushi and Rinka. Given [[spoiler: TheMagicGoesAway, neither have their powers to fall back on anymore, but they were ''already'' unstoppable combatants when push came to shove.]] The only open question is which of the two is more skilled.
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60[[/folder]]
61
62[[folder:Azuma]]
63!!'''Kyoutarou Azuma '''
64->Voiced by: Keisuke Koumoto (Japanese), [[LetsPlay/SkyDoesMinecraft Adam Dahlberg]] (English)
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66The male lead, his power is PsychicTeleportation with a [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Hero Complex]] and a dark past.
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68* AnArmAndALeg: He winds up losing an arm trying to escape an explosion while saving lives.
69* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:Kidnapped in 18 with no way to get back. A telepathic bird helps him. Yes, really.]]
70* ChronicHeroSyndrome: And Rinka is the one who inspired him.
71* DarkAndTroubledPast: Yes! He lost his parents and was forced to survive in a war-torn country until the Professor picked him up.
72* DatingCatwoman: He actually isn't, but did live with Minami for at least a year before the series started. The exact nature of their relationship causes Rinka some angst.
73* DoggedNiceGuy: Despite Rinka's reluctance to get involved with him and to accept her ESP powers he keeps showing up and encouraging to use her powers for good. Fortunately for him it's not long before she starts crushing on him.
74* HeroicWannabe: In almost any other series he'd be the main character, but Rinka does a better job embodying the ideals he espouses and kicks a lot more ass.
75* HeroWithBadPublicity: All because of his costume. Rinka as the White Girl is much better accepted. [[spoiler:At least until part 2.]]
76* HiddenDepths: He acts happy and cheerful, but he's went through some heavy stuff and is much more complex.
77%%* IdiotHero: Like Rinka, he has his moments.
78* TheLancer: To Rinka's Hero.
79%%* LargeHam
80* LetsGetDangerous: He stops playing a nice hero and went to beating down Yakuza with a bat and shooting one after they burned down Rinka's home.
81* MundaneUtility: Teleportation is an awesome way to get out of having to pay for public transit.
82%%* MyParentsAreDead
83* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Almost entirely because his superhero concept is really intimidating: A crow's head on an old fashion formal suit. Amusingly, his suit is based off an in-universe cartoon where the hero dresses up that way.
84* ReassignedToAntarctica: Along with Rinka at the end of chapter 75.
85* PsychicTeleportation: His ability allows him to teleport which looks as if he vanishes into smoke.
86* TeleportSpam: He eventually learns to PsychicTeleportation in quick successions.
87* TrainingFromHell: [[spoiler: He received extensive Special Forces training with the CIA Special Activities Division during the time skip after part 1.]]
88* TookALevelInBadass: Even though he is still pretty much Rinka's sidekick, part 2 shows that he is now a much more competent melee and gun fighter upon his return to Tokyo after going missing with Rinka one year prior.[[spoiler: Thanks to the aforementioned TrainingFromHell with the CIA .]]
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90[[/folder]]
91
92[[folder:Rindo]]
93!!'''Rindo Urushiba'''
94->Voiced by: Creator/TetsuInada (Japanese), Creator/BryanMassey (English)
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96A retired cop and Rinka's dad, he's an overprotective father who gained a form of [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]].
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98* TheBigGuy: Dude is built like a tank.
99* BlankWhiteEyes: For no discernible reason.
100* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a scar on his face.
101%%* HeroicBuild
102* MindOverMatter: Can attract anything towards himself. However, as shown near the end of part one, he can slow the attraction of objects towards himself as well, or stop them; he just can't push them ''away'' from him.
103* PapaWolf: He's crazy protective of Rinka. His first appearance has him rampaging down the streets [[SayMyName calling her name]] because he thinks she's in danger.
104* PsychicPowers: Telekinesis.
105* RetiredBadass: Used to be a cop, before he was fired for trying to root out corruption.
106* ShoutOut: To ''[[{{ComicBook/XMen}} Wolverine]]'' and ''[[{{Anime/GaReiZero}} Iwahata]]''
107
108[[/folder]]
109
110[[folder:Kobushi]]
111!!'''Black Fist (Real Name: Kuroi Kobushi)'''
112->Voiced by: Creator/MaiAizawa (Japanese), Jenny Ledel (English)
113
114A PhantomThief with the ability of Invisibility and a skilled [[GoodOldFisticuffs boxer]].
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116* ActionGirl: She's even more skilled than Rinka when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. It helps that she's a boxer.
117* AlliterativeName: '''K'''obushi '''K'''uroi.
118* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Is this to Rinka as a combatant. This ''might'' have changed following Yoda's training, but Rinka never fights Kobushi following her detainment, so it's never made clear. It ''is'' known, however, that Kobushi never lost a fair fight with Rinka, largely because her skills as a pugilist allow her to keep up with Rinka. [[spoiler:When she's reintroduced in part 2, she knocks Rinka out with a single punch. Rinka wasn't expecting it, but it goes a long way to show just how [[StrongAndSkilled powerful]] Kobushi is, and demonstrates she really only needs one solid hit to put Rinka down.]]
119* ArchNemesisDad: You don't get more 'archnemesis' than [[spoiler: your mom being the BigBad.]]
120* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:To her sister, stopping their mother from killing her in Chapter 62.]]
121* BoisterousBruiser: A RareFemaleExample.
122* CombatPragmatist: Despite the fact that she likes fair fights. She still fights fair, but she likes using as many resources at her disposal as she can.
123* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:She uses this as a reason for showering with Rinka and passing information along to her during the latter's imprisonment as a forced prize fighter.]]
124* FieryRedhead: And an EvilRedhead at first.
125* FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler: With Rinka by the final third of the manga. The two have nothing but respect for each other after having spent the entire manga saving each other's hides and bickering.]]
126* GoodOldFisticuffs: A champion boxer strong enough to punch her way out of a steel cage.
127* TheHandler: [[spoiler:She's Rinka's for the Part 2 infiltration of the Hong Kong SuperHumanTrafficking operation.]]
128* HighHeelFaceTurn: Due to Rinka's ''father''.
129* IneffectualLoner: Though she's starting to think of the others as family.
130* {{Invisibility}}: Her power, one that she's quick to use for petty thievery.
131* IWasJustPassingThrough: Her reasoning for helping them is first to steal the mysterious stone, then to get stronger than Rinka, and finally to settle the score with her sister.
132* KiManipulation: Gets these after a long period of absence when she was training.
133* TheLancer: To Rinka, in the second part of the series. Not only does she act as a stabilizing agent and foil during Rinka's traumatic stint as a prize-fighter, she is also Rinka's primary partner in both the Underground Fighting arc and the ARES arc. Notably, [[spoiler: while Rinka is the one to beat the BigBad of each arc (The Professor, Nadja, and finally Claudia) it's only as a result of Kobushi in some way aiding her beforehand. Against The Professor, she has a grenade go off right before he can kill Azuma, opening him up for a beat down. Against Nadja, she takes a bullet for Rinka by distracting Nadja just long enough for Rinka to get to solid ground. And against Claudia, she slaps an ESP Cuff on her wrist, nullifying her incredible power, so that Rinka and Claudia can get into a more even fight.]]
134* LikesOlderMen: Likes Rinka's dad, her "prince."
135* NavelDeepNeckline: Her SpyCatsuit is unzipped down to her midriff.
136* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: It's actually a title in her family that she strives for, as the best thief. [[spoiler:This is what gives her an "in" to the criminal underground.]]
137* ParentalAbandonment: Never knew her parents, only her grandmother. [[spoiler:Because her mother killed her father.]]
138* PhantomThief: The real phantom thief. [[spoiler:So good in fact, she managed to infiltrate ARES' headquarters on pure talent alone, without the use of her ESP.]]
139* PsychicBlockDefense: [[spoiler:She's immune to telepathy because her childhood training left her able to close her heart on a dime.]]
140* TheRival: To Rinka at first.
141* VitriolicBestBuds: By part 2, Rinka and Kobushi are practically this, with Rinka spending more time for Kobushi than she does with Azuma. Rinka's straight-laced heroic antics and Kobushi's irreverent attitude see the two clash, but it's clear Rinka sees Kobushi as a trusted ally and Kobushi herself is willing to cut down on her worst attributes to be a faithful, if prideful, friend.
142* SpyCatsuit: She wears one and sports a ''very'' low neckline while doing so.
143* SweetTooth: Almost always has some kind of candy in her mouth, usually lollipops.
144* WorldsBestWarrior: By the end of the story, it's a stiff competition between Kobushi and Rinka. Given [[spoiler: TheMagicGoesAway, neither have their powers to fall back on anymore, but they were ''already'' unstoppable combatants when push came to shove.]] The only open question is which of the two is stronger.
145[[/folder]]
146
147[[folder:Murasaki]]
148!!'''Murasaki Edoyama '''
149->Voiced by: Azusa Tadokoro (Japanese), Creator/LaraWoodhull (English)
150
151The daughter of a Yakuza boss, she gained {{Psychometry}} from a glowing fish.
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153* BadassAdorable: She's very cute, and has some badass moments given the [[LethalHarmlessPowers potential]] of her powers.
154* BespectacledCutie: Possesses the glasses and the meek personality befitting the trope.
155* BigDamnHeroes: Can't get much bigger than [[spoiler: derailing the Big Bad's plan at the last moment and saving the day.]]
156* BrainyBrunette: She has plenty of knowledge and learns how to properly use her powers for the better.
157* DaddysGirl: Though their relations are a little tense, she's close to her father.
158* LethalHarmlessPowers: {{Psychometry}}, the ability to see an object's past by touching it. Cool and useful, but definitely not dangerous. But if you manage to find a master martial artist's nunchuks...
159* LonelyRichKid: It's hinted that most of her peers stay away due to her father's occupation. Similarly, when first meeting Rinka and Azuma, she claims that Peggy (a ''penguin'') is her only friend.
160* MafiaPrincess: Her father is a yakuza boss.
161* PostVictoryCollapse: Happens to her every time she fights because she has very little physical stamina.
162* TheRunaway: Because she doesn't want to be involved with the Yakuza anymore.
163* TheSmartGuy: She's a BrainyBrunette and with her power, she serves this role with Ayumu.
164%%* TookALevelInBadass
165* WeakButSkilled: Has no physical strength or stamina, being an elementary schooler, but once she picks up a weapon she gains all the knowledge and skills of its previous owners.
166
167[[/folder]]
168
169[[folder:Ayumu]]
170!!'''Ayumu Oozora'''
171->Voiced by: Creator/MegumiOgata (Japanese), Creator/MorganBerry (English)
172
173A son of one of the most outspoken people against espers and everything they stand for. He has the power of Precognition, but he can only see two seconds into the future. He is also a student of Master Yoda called in to train with the others. He is a middle school student with aspirations to be a member of Congress, like his mother.
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175* BerserkButton: It's not an afro, it's a perm!
176* FollowInMyFootsteps: His mother wants him to do this.
177* {{Jerkass}}: At first. He slips back into it after [[spoiler: Rinka and Azuma return,]] but it's treated more as him feeling betrayed.
178* LightningBruiser: He's fast by himself, but he seems even faster because of his ability to see all attacks two seconds in advance. However, when he thinks too much about the possible futures in battle, he slows down.
179* ParentalObliviousness: His mother is completely oblivious to his powers at first... then he has to save her from another esper with his own powers.
180%%* SixthRanger
181* TookALevelInKindness: After bonding with Murasaki and the others, and working together with them to stop the Professor.
182* WellDoneSonGuy: It's hinted that he wishes for his mother's approval. Given that he's an esper and she's against espers...
183
184[[/folder]]
185
186[[folder:Yoda]]
187!!'''Master Yoda'''
188->Voiced by: Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese), Creator/RBruceElliott (English)
189
190A [[OldMaster Martial Arts Master]] who trained much of the Tokyo Police Force, including Rinka's father. He is constantly dressed in a panda suit and is an esper himself, with the power of clairvoyance. Yes, he is named after ''[[Franchise/StarWars that]]'' Master Yoda.
191----
192* BattleAura: Has quite the frightening one.
193* DirtyOldMan: Has a tendency to grab Rinka's boobs as "part of her training."
194* EccentricMentor: A DirtyOldMan and martial arts teacher who wears a panda suit.
195* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler: After getting hit with a tranquilizer, he is bound to a wheelchair for a while]].
196* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Just like the other Yoda.
197* OldMaster: An aged master of the martial arts.
198* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's extremely fast and strong despite his size.
199* ShoutOut: Named after Yoda from ''Franchise/StarWars'', and even resembles him outside of the panda costume.
200* WorfBarrage: More than anyone in the manga by far, especially after he finishes training Rinka. Expect some reason for why he can't track someone with clairvoyance anytime someone brings up the idea in part 2. Humorously, the one time it ''did'' work, [[spoiler: it immediately is made pointless because Claudia chooses at that very moment to come in and save Orisube.]]
201
202[[/folder]]
203
204[[folder:Peggi]]
205!!'''Peggi'''
206->Voiced by: Kaoru Mizuhara (Japanese), Creator/HeatherWalker (English)
207
208A Flying Penguin who is known as the "Collector." He can devour ESP by eating the glowing fish.
209----
210* {{Flight}}: Unusually, he's not only a penguin. He's a ''flying'' penguin.
211* PowerNullifier: His right fin transforms into an ESP eating shark-thing. [[spoiler:When it receives Benediction, it grows large enough to consume all the ESP in the world and reform the Ark.]]
212* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Peggy," "Peggi," "Pegi," and "Pengy," among others.
213* TeamPet: Kind of serves as the team mascot.
214
215[[/folder]]
216
217[[folder:Parrot]]
218!!'''Parrot'''
219->Voiced by: Creator/MinoriChihara (Japanese), Creator/JamieMarchi (English)
220
221A pelican that Azuma meets when he is left on the deserted island. It helps him escape. It can communicate to him because it gained powers of {{Telepathy}} from the light fish. He later joins the heroes in their crime fighting.
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223* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: With Azuma, he manages to save Rinka and Black Fist from the Professor]].
224* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: See PhlebotinumOverload below.
225%%* EleventhHourRanger
226* NonIndicativeName: Azuma names him "Parrot" even though he's a pelican; [[FridgeBrilliance likely due to the fact that he can communicate]].
227* PhlebotinumOverload: He [[spoiler: manages to dispel ''The Professor's'' illusions by using his telepathy and overloading him]].
228* TeamPet: Becomes this along with Peggy.
229* {{Telepathy}}: His power.
230* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: He wants to experience the feeling that only beings with a "higher level of intellect", such as humans, can have. [[spoiler:Such as what Azuma feels for Rinka.]]
231
232[[/folder]]
233
234!!Heroes (Part 2)
235
236[[folder:Ren]]
237!!'''Ren Jomaku'''
238TheHero of Part 2, taking place over a year after the events of Part 1. She is a first-year high school student who gets caught up in an esper terrorist attack at her school. Ren herself is an esper, however.
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240* AllLovingHero: Her last appearance in chapter 75 has her trying to rescue the mole from the Esper Liberation Front who only pretended to be her friend to get close to her, lured her into a trap with a WoundedGazelleGambit, had her subjected to ColdBloodedTorture and tried to blow her up, twice.
241* AnIcePerson: Her power allows her to freeze things,[[spoiler:though it's not the true nature of her abilities.]]
242* BullyHunter: Her powers were discovered and her life changed when she used them to stop a bully.
243* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: One of Ren's problems is that she finds herself living day by day, and doesn't really know what to do with her life. [[spoiler: While she at first attempts to become a police officer to spend time with Zeusu, she eventually grows to honestly want to do the job and make the world a better place. Nene's [[LastRequest final prodding]] to get Ren to become a cop is the point where Ren truly understands she wants the job for the job, not for Zeusu.]]
244* TheDeterminator: No matter how she's hurt, betrayed, or beat-down, she always gets back up again and rushes to protect her friends. This is the quality Zeusu loves most.
245* Deuteragonist: Once Ren and Rinka team up for the final part of the story, Ren fulfills this role. She gets ''less'' focus than Rinka, but she's ultimately [[spoiler:one of the four people who ends up finishing off the BigBad]], and she has her part to play in the greater conflict. Though both Rinka and Ren have their reasons for confronting the final challenges set before them, [[spoiler:saving Marume from the Electron God ultimately Zeusu from Kuroi Claudia]] makes the last series of events personal for Ren.
246* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: She squeezes her "milk box" too hard when she's thinking about her new crush, getting it all over her.
247* {{Foil}}: To Rinka: Dark-eyed, dark-haired glasses-wearing OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent (comparatively) who can freeze everyone else in place to Rinka's PerpetualPoverty ActionGirl who can pass through solid matter.
248%%* TheHero: Of Part 2.
249* LovableCoward: Unlike Rinka, she absolutely does ''not'' want to get involved with what's going on at her school and wants some normalcy in her life again.
250* LoveAtFirstSight: To Zeusu.
251%%* LuminescentBlush
252%%* MeetCute: With Zeusu.
253* MacGuffinSuperPerson: [[spoiler:Her ability is the key to releasing the Messiah from "Lock Space" inside the ark.]]
254* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Freezes Master Yoda upon sight because she thought he was an alien, keeping him from helping her and Zeusu fight off the other esper delinquents.
255* TheNicknamer: Immediately names Zeusu "Juice-kun" once she finds out his name.
256* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Or as ordinary as a girl can be in a city where [[spoiler: 20% of the Kanto region has esper powers]]. She also goes to a school for espers.
257* PowerIncontinence: Loses control of her powers occasionally, causing her to freeze herself in awkward situations. [[spoiler: It completely goes berserk in moments of great stress, releasing an amount of power never seen in the series before. It happens again in chapter 76, after the "glowing fish" presumably took all Esp away.]]
258* PowerNullifier: [[spoiler: Somehow, she also has the same ability to remove powers as Peggy. This is because she stops their hearts when she freezes them, technically killing them.]]
259* ReluctantWarrior: Despite being more reluctant to fight, she definitely can when pushed into a corner.
260* TimeStandsStill: Within the sphere of her power she freezes even time.
261* WasItAllALie:[[spoiler:she asks this to Zuesu, when she learns he's the heir of the security, military group that's after her.]]
262
263[[/folder]]
264
265[[folder:Zeusu]]
266!''Zeusu Tetsuya''
267The main male protagonist of Part 2. He goes to school with Ren and fights the esper terrorists alongside her. He has the ability to change the state of any physical object. [[spoiler:He's actually the heir to the antagonists of Part 2.]]
268----
269* TheAtoner: Vows to become this from Chapter 73 onwards.
270* BecomingTheMask: He fell in love with her despite the fact that he was supposed to be monitoring her and stopping her from getting in the way of their plans.
271* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't let his eccentricities fool you. Once he gets serious, he's a force to be reckoned with.
272* BigBadFriend:[[spoiler:He is the heir of ARES.]]
273* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Has shades of this. Once he slipped a ice treat into Ren's bag in order for it to keep cool.
274* ChronicHeroSyndrome:[[spoiler:Saved Kozuki from the Esper mercenaries that were chasing after her.]]
275* DarkAndTroubledPast: Hoo boy. His entire childhood was a living hell. Not a day went by without someone trying to kidnap or kill him.
276* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: There is one reason, and only one reason why he's loyal to ARES, and that's his "benefactor," the board president, the one person who kept him alive and who he'll never betray.
277* EvilAllAlong: See BigBadFriend above.
278* ExtraOreDinary: He can control all forms of metal.
279* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Keeps going back and forth between being a hero and being a villain due to ConflictingLoyalty. By chapter 73 he finally settles on being a "hero," but by then, numerous good and valiant characters have died, and Ren is not quite as forgiving as she would be otherwise.
280* HiddenDepths:[[spoiler:On the surface, he's very eccentric, and not very talkative. However, he can easily subdue a speedster, and [[MadeofIron take an explosion in close proximity]]. Even though he's the heir of ARES, he saved Kozuki from the mercenaries employed by the company. Granted he may not have known who she was. Also, he doesn't seem to agree with his protectors killing needlessly, as he ordered Amame to stop killing and to focus on capturing Minami. Also, there are signs he's developed genuine feelings for Ren, but creates an inner turmoil between these feeling and his position.]]
281* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:In response to Ren's WasItAllALie, he states that he doesn't recall lying; it's just that he never told the truth. Then, he turns it on her by saying that she just didn't know him.]]
282* TheLancer: To Ren. [[spoiler:Later, [[BigBadFriend horribly subverted]]]]
283* LethalHarmlessPowers: One would think "bending spoons" isn't that big a deal, right? Well, not only can he bend ''any piece of metal'' but he can do it in any way he likes. [[spoiler: He uses a tiny piece of metal shrapnel to stab Claudia in the throat from just out of her reach.]]
284* MeetCute: With Ren, when he uses his powers to get her skirt out of the subway door.
285* TheMole:[[spoiler:He got close to Ren, because he was after her ESP.]]
286* TheStoic: This guy constantly sports a blank face.
287* TransformingMecha: Zeusu's power can basically make a car into a Transformer Robot.
288
289
290[[/folder]]
291
292!!The Professor and Associates
293
294[[folder:The Professor]]
295!'''The Professor (Real Name: Hokusai Azuma)'''
296->Voiced by: Creator/YoshihisaKawahara (Japanese), Jeffrey Schmidt (English)
297
298Azuma Kyoutarou's adoptive and Minami's father, he is leading the group that is letting the glowing fish roam free.
299----
300* BigBad: Of Part 1, anyway. [[spoiler:Despite being imprisoned for the majority of Part 2, his agents are one of two factions vying for power, the other being ARES, which makes him one of several big bads for the series as a whole, the others being the ARES board of directors.]]
301* TheBeastmaster: He likes creating illusion beasts to help fight, such as dragons and other mythological creatures.
302* TheChessmaster: He isn't a MagnificentBastard for nothing.
303* CulturedBadass: As befitting a former archaeologist, researcher, and university professor, the Professor is very intelligent and knows a great deal about history.
304* CrazyPrepared: He left a message in the tablet piece Murasaki had just for her, anticipating she would get it more than two years into the future and as a back-up in case he died.
305* FreudianExcuse: Losing his friends and wife drive him over the edge.
306* HopeSpot: Lets the heroes gain popularity and inspire hope, before crushing it to fan anti-esper sentiment.
307* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: His belief.
308* KatanasAreJustBetter: His weapon of choice is a massive odachi.
309* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Dies in Chapter 73.]]
310* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: The loss of his wife is one of the contributing factors to the way he is today]].
311* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Orders this to Rinka and Azuma, and he meant it.
312* ManipulativeBastard: The Professor can wrap almost anybody around his finger, and let them think they're in control.
313* MasterOfIllusion: His power. [[spoiler: As explained more in detail later, this isn't the full truth; the Professor's real power is a specialized form of telepathy that allows him to impart images and the sensory effects related to those images in a person's head. This is an important distinction, for two reasons; firstly, this makes the Professor incredibly powerful because unlike most illusionists he can indirectly kill people with his illusions. Rinka and Kobushi nearly die when the Professor makes them think they're frozen in ice, and thus their brains think that they can't breathe in any air, as an example. However, the second reason this distinction matters is that it gives the Professor a clear weakness; when other telepaths are around, they can overwrite or null any images the Professor puts into a person's head, leaving the Professor mostly helpless.]]
314* MesACrowd: One of his favored fighting tactics, made with his illusions.
315* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler: When esper powers are sealed in chapter 75, his corpse cracks, flakes apart and the pieces float away like leaves on the wind.]].
316* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Someone that looks surprisingly similar to him turns up in Egypt in chapter 76.]]
317* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We never learn his actual name. The fact Minami never uses it despite being his daughter is justified in that, after her first kills, she was taught to see The Professor as her leader, not her father. Still doesn't explain why we never see his wife say his name in the flashback chapters.
318** In the anime, [[spoiler:Kyoutaro]] mentions his name at one point.
319* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:After spending the entire series devoting himself completely to revenge, and even ignoring his daughter when she is wounded in favour of pursuing his goal, the Professor dies protecting Minami, and his last words to his daughter are to tell her to leave him and live her own life. The narrative even acknowledges that in the end, he didn't die as the monster he had become, but as a father.]]
320* ScarsAreForever: Has a really really nasty burn on the left side of his face, scalp, neck, and torso, normally hidden behind an illusion.
321* ShaggyDogStory: His entire quest for vengeance in regards to his wife and students was doomed to failure in any event. [[spoiler: If the head of the PMSC's testimony is true, the one who gave the order is long dead due to an internal power struggle in Ares.]] He doesn't care, and continues his RoaringRampageOfRevenge anyway, stating that his grudge will ''never'' be sated.
322* SocialDarwinist: Subverted. At first, it seems that he wants to create a world where the strong, espers, can flourish while the weak normals, stagnate, but it becomes clear later on that this is all bullshit, and all he really cares for is revenge.
323%%* SmugSuper
324* TakingTheBullet: Minami intended to do so for him when Amame was about to kill them, but he turned around and took it for her.
325
326[[/folder]]
327
328[[folder:Minami]]
329!'''Minami Azuma'''
330->Voiced by: Creator/SachikaMisawa (Japanese), Creator/MallorieRodak (English)
331
332Azuma's adoptive sister who follows the professor, she's also can do PsychicTeleportation.
333----
334* ActionGirl: Instead of hand-to-hand combat, she fights with a sword.
335* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Led to her using her powers for the first time in front of another person and also her first kill of her would-be rapists]].
336* BerserkButton: Do not, under any circumstance, [[spoiler: bring up the fact that Rinka was the one who ended up with Azuma. And especially don't imply it's something to get over.]]
337%%* BewareTheQuietOnes
338* CombatPragmatist: She took out Peggy before even trying to fight the heroes with a tranquilizer needle.
339* CurbstompBattle: Against Rinka.[[spoiler: Their second fight is more evenly matched, since Rinka's new skills allow her to counter Minami's TeleportSpam, at which point Rinka's advantage in physical combat eventually lets her win the fight. By their third and final fight, the tables are completely turned; not only can Rinka effectively beat down Minami, she can do it by handicapping herself due to having to hold Minami's hand; while Minami gets in some good hits, the start and end of the fight show that Rinka was never in any danger of losing in the slightest. ''And Rinka was holding back and had a broken arm.'']]
340* DarkActionGirl: Easily the best female villain in part 1, she has no qualms about getting her hands dirty.
341* TheDragon: To the Professor.
342* DualWielding: Likes doing this with swords.
343* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Azuma is pretty much the only person she won't kill, and Kozuki is the one person she won't let be killed.]]
344* EyeScream: Amame jabs out her right eye with her bare hands.
345* HannibalLecture: To Rinka. While beating her at her own game.
346* KatanasAreJustBetter: She wields a katana.
347* KickChick: Kicks just as much as Rinka.
348* MurderTheHypotenuse: Given her "attack on sight" attitude towards Rinka and feelings for Azuma.
349* PseudoRomanticFriendship: With Kozuki. By part 2, after being on the run with each other for the better part of two years, they have become exceptionally close, and much of their dialogue is suggestive enough to imply they're actually lovers, not just friends. They both make deep sacrifices for the other, and when Minami thinks that Kozuki died, she hits the DespairEventHorizon, and is only brought back by the revelation that she survived. By the time she's with Kozuki again, she all but outright says the words 'I love you' and promises that, after one final battle, she'll travel the world with Minami as a couple. She keeps that promise.
350* TheRival: To Rinka. She jumps at any chance to fight her, and [[ImaginaryLoveTriangle Azuma's role certainly doesn't help.]]
351* SugarAndIcePersonality: Prior to her disappearance two years ago. Now, she's mostly just ice.
352* TeleportSpam: Combined with her swords, it's a deadly fighting style.
353
354[[/folder]]
355
356[[folder:Kozuki]]
357!'''Black Fist (Real Name: Kuroi Kozuki)'''
358->Voiced by: Creator/HiromiKonno (Japanese), Creator/LindsaySeidel (English)
359
360Kuroi Kozuki, the other Black Fist's younger sister. She has [[TeleportationWithDrawbacks a teleportation ability as well, but]] she can only teleport other people and things, not herself, just by touching them. She desires the title of "Black Fist" in the Kuroi family, and to do that she must steal something valuable enough to please their grandmother. As such, she joins the Professor for her own reasons.
361----
362* AlliterativeName: Just as her sister.
363* CombatPragmatist: Uses her teleportation abilities to teleport random things such as shields, guns, and a ''moai head'' into her battles.
364* NavelDeepNeckline: Her SpyCatsuit is unzipped even lower than her sisters, going ''past'' her navel.
365* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Her mother was banished from the family after she was born, after killing her father.]]
366* PseudoRomanticFriendship: With Minami. By part 2, after being on the run with each other for the better part of two years, they have become exceptionally close, and much of their dialogue is suggestive enough to imply they're actually lovers, not just friends. They both make deep sacrifices for the other, and in chapter 70, Kozuki actually begs Minami to run away with her instead of going off to fight alongside the professor, and when Minami refuses, demands to go with them, despite already being badly wounded. Also of note, her entire reason for joining The Professor was to ''steal'' the Ark of the Covenant so she could give it to her grandmother, something that was certain to let her hold the title of Black Fist. And for a while she looks like she really plans to cut and run with the Ark, even taking it to London with her and Minami...but she never goes through with it because ''she knows how important it is to Minami.'' She is so faithful to Minami she is willing to give up her lifelong quest to become Black Fist ''just to make her happy.''
367* PsychicBlockDefense: [[spoiler:She's immune to telepathy because her childhood training left her able to close her heart even while asleep.]]
368* TheRival: To her sister.
369* SpyCatsuit: Just like her sister.
370[[/folder]]
371
372[[folder:Lin]]
373!'''Lin Linquian'''
374->Voiced by: Creator/YukiMatsuoka (Japanese), Creator/TrinaNishimura (English)
375
376One of the espers that the Professor recruits. She first appears to attack Rinka and the others at school. She has the ability to make a "long range spirit punch," i.e., she has repulsion powers as opposed to Ken's attraction powers.
377----
378%%* BlackEyesOfEvil
379%%* ChineseGirl
380* CombatPragmatist: Likes to [[GoForTheEye make attacks directed at the eyes]].
381* InUniverseNickname: "The Evil Ghost of the Woods."
382%%* KiManipulation
383* MindOverMatter: Her powers of repulsion.
384* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: With Minami and the other subordinate, she delivers one of these to Rinka in their first meeting, [[spoiler: resulting in her temporary death]].
385
386[[/folder]]
387
388[[folder:The Puppeteer]]
389!'''Unnamed Subordinate'''
390
391Another esper that the Professor recruits. Like Lin, she first appears to attack Rinka and the others at school. By locking eyes with someone, her ability allows her to [[PeoplePuppets take control of their bodies]].
392----
393* AmbiguouslyBrown: Except in her first appearance.
394* {{BFG}}: Also wields one of these.
395* HeroKiller: She is basically the one who [[spoiler: kills Rinka with her PeoplePuppets]].
396* MarionetteMaster
397* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: With Minami and Lin, she delivers one of these to Rinka in their first meeting, [[spoiler: resulting in Rinka's temporary death]].
398* NoNameGiven
399* PeoplePuppets: Her power.
400* SmallGirlBigGun
401
402[[/folder]]
403
404[[folder:The Telekinetic]]
405!'''Unnamed Subordinate'''
406Another esper that the Professor recruits. He has extremely strong powers of [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]]..
407----
408* TheBrute
409* KiManipulation: He is said to be a master of "Chi-Fu" by Master Yoda. He even claimed to train Minami and the others to fight over the years.
410* MadeOfIron: ''Gunshots'' do nothing to him due to his chi abilities.
411* MaskPower: He wears a samurai mask.
412* MindOverMatter
413* NoNameGiven
414* OneHitKO: He is on the receiving end of one by Black Fist [[ClothingDamage And it renders him completely naked]].
415* ShirtlessScene
416* TheStoic
417
418[[/folder]]
419
420[[folder:The Seer]]
421!'''Unnamed Subordinate'''
422Another esper working for the Professor. He has the power to sense other espers and uses chains with daggers on the end for combat.
423----
424* CurbStompBattle: He is on the receiving end of one by Ayumu and Murasaki.
425* EvilGenius
426* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Gets caught in the explosion at the end of Chapter 71, killing him.]]
427* MaskPower: Dresses similarly to the other subordinate, similarly to a samurai or a *{{Ninja}}. In fact, he has a whole ninja theme going for him.
428* NoNameGiven
429* TheBusCameBack: Returns in Season 2 to free the Professor.
430** BackForTheDead: And is killed before the resulting battle is over.
431
432[[/folder]]
433
434!!ARES PMSC
435
436[[folder:The Rakshasa Siblings]]
437!'''Anija and Amame'''
438A brother and sister pair that the ARES board president adopted as children, and who now act as his right hand. Anija, the brother, is [[PlayingWithFire a powerful pyrokinetic]] while Amame, the sister, possesses SuperSpeed. Both of them are powerful assassins and the last of a clan of assassins, called the Rakshasa, from an unnamed Middle-Eastern country.
439----
440* BigBrotherInstinct: Though it's not quite clear which of them is older, Anija is ''fiercely'' protective of his sister. See TakingYouWithMe.
441* BigEater: Amame. It crosses over with SweetTooth, as she prefers snacks.
442* ColdSniper: Both of them have their moments of coldly shooting powerful enemies from a distance.
443* CreepyTwins
444* TheDeterminator: Both of them. As stated above, Amame got stabbed through the foot, and her only reaction was to use the sword as a weapon, without bothering to take it out. Anija was actually shot in the back of the head, and survived long enough to save his sister's life, then blow himself up.
445* GeniusDitz: In the field, Anija is an unstoppable juggernaut of fiery death with a keen, observant mind. Off it, he's a klutz with no common sense, to the point his sister constantly berates him for it.
446* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Inverted. Though both have been shown to use guns at some point or another, Anija is an extremely powerful pyrokinetic whose prefered tactic is to simply blast things from a distance, while Amame uses her SuperSpeed to devastating effect in close combat.
447* LastOfHisKind: They're the final remaining members of an ancient assassin order. The rest were wiped out by air strikes when modern warfare found their home.
448* MrFanservice[=/=]MsFanservice: Given how little both of them wear, they're this.
449* MundaneUtility: At one point, Amame uses her super-speed to go grocery shopping, and Anija uses his pyrokinesis to light the president's cigarettes.
450* NotQuiteFlight: Anija can use controlled flame jets to essentially fly, and Amame can use her super speed to jump extraordinary distances, using even the smallest surfaces as stepping-stones.
451* PlayingWithFire: Anija is a pyrokinetic.
452* PersonOfMassDestruction: Anija, whose pyrokinesis is monstrously powerful.
453* SiblingTeam: They're rarely seen alone.
454* SuperSpeed: Amame is a speedster.
455* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Anija, after being shot, blows himself up to kill the Professor and the Seer to keep them from killing his sister.]]
456* UndyingLoyalty: To the ARES board president. It has something to do with the fact that he adopted them when they were children.
457* VitriolicBestBuds: Once their personalities become more fleshed out, it is shown that they have this kind of dynamic. Anija has a few problems with common sense, and Amame never lets him hear the end of it. That being said, it is clear they care deeply for one another.
458* WalkingShirtlessScene: Anija never wears a shirt.
459
460[[/folder]]
461
462[[folder:Kuroi Claudia]]
463!'''Kuroi Claudia'''
464A woman who is on the board of directors and the superior officer of the group responsible for the Hong Kong underground arena.
465----
466* AbusiveParents: She's one to her daughters, torturing Kozuki and getting off on it. Oddly, she was also getting off on masochistic joy because she felt that she ''shouldn't'' be making her own daughter suffer.
467* BadBoss: The worst in the series, which is saying a lot.
468* BigBad: Of the final third. The Professor, evil as he is, is busy taking down people Claudia has already considered useless, she has a personal beef with two of the heroines (What with being her daughters), it takes every team member to bring her down, and she represents the last major threat to Tokyo. The story comes to a close after she is depowered, and it turns out she planned out much of the plot to gain benediction.
469* BlackWidow: She's killed all of her husbands just for the hell of it.
470* EnemyCivilWar: Her faction of ARES is acting separate from the others, and then she winds up attacking her own faction too.
471* GoodOldFisticuffs: She's a boxer, just like her daughters.
472* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Her faction of ARES ''invented'' the anti-esp bracelets, and forced espers through brutal ForcedPrizeFight tournaments to test their effectiveness. Guess what gets used on her in chapter 74.
473* ICannotSelfTerminate: When she's ''finally'' taken down, through a series of attacks just shy of a RasputinianDeath, [[spoiler: and all Esper powers in the world are sealed away]], she puts a gun to her head, and then throws it away before pulling the trigger. Sadly, she's teleported away or killed everyone around who would ''very happily'' do it for her at this point.
474* LargeAndInCharge: Claudia is one of the most powerful members of ARES, and she towers over just about everybody in the series. Hell, she's even taller than Rindo, if only by a little bit.
475* LargeHam: She just loves to chew the scenery. [[spoiler: She drops this when she is given benediction, feeling empty inside at having gotten everything someone could have ever wanted...except not at all what she wanted.]]
476* LaserGuidedKarma: Karma catches up to her in a big way in chapters 74 and 75.
477* MegatonPunch: Her punch was enough to topple Rinka, crack the ground beneath her, ''and'' break her arm from blocking it.
478* MissingMom: She's this to both the Black Fist sisters.
479* NeverMyFault: When asked why she's going on a rampage despite getting all the power she could ever dream of, she points out that she's resentful of the world for having what she does not, friends, family, fun times, etc., and cries that it's ''unfair'', failing to realize that the reason for it, is her own decision to throw it all away of her own free will.
480* TheResenter: The reason why she's doing all those horrible things she's shown doing? She's ''jealous'' of the rest of the world for having what she does not, friends, family, etc., crying that it's unfair. Of course, she fails to realize that she has none of those things because she threw them away herself.
481* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: What her rampage pretty much boils down to.
482* TeleportationWithDrawbacks: She has the ability to teleport other people and objects on contact. Unlike Kozuki, she's shown herself to be powerful enough to also do this with energy blasts. She still suffers the same drawback Kozuki does, however; while she can teleport other things to and away from her, she can't teleport herself. [[spoiler: This inhibition is taken away once she unlocks Benediction; she's simply such a powerful teleporter now she can teleport herself. [[FromBadToWorse And entire buildings.]]]]
483* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: She teleports in 3 missiles to try and kill her allies and Rinka's faction when she gets what she wants.
484** Drops ''entire buildings'' on one of her former allies after getting a power-up from the messiah.
485* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Does this to the entirety of ARES in chapter 65, with missiles!
486** Does it to her last subordinate and the messiah after she receives benediction in chapter 72.
487
488[[/folder]]
489
490[[folder:Puppet-Master]]
491
492!!'''Puppet-Master'''
493A mind-control esper, and another member of the ARES board of directors.
494----
495* BrownNote: Later chapters explain that his powers are based on a sound that compels people to do what he wants. One of the esper police even blocks this sound with a wall of water.
496* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: He tries to kill Minami by chopping off her head with a sword using his mind-control powers to disable her. He winds up chopping off the head of an accomplice who was disguised as Minami by The Professor's powers of illusion and getting his own head cut off by The Professor.]]
497* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:How the Professor kills him.]]
498* PeoplePuppets: He can also do this. [[spoiler:He does this to Kozuki to use her powers to retrieve the hidden arc, and later, to Ren to break the seal.]]
499* PsychicAssistedSuicide: His schtick. [[spoiler:Including the guy the Professor wanted killed. You can imagine he took it poorly when he found out.]]
500* RedBaron: Known as the Emperior of Assassination. [[PsychicAssistedSuicide One guess how he got it.]]
501[[/folder]]
502
503!!'''The ESP Liberation Front'''
504
505[[folder:The Front as a whole]]
506A sinister group of espers who want to dominate the ESP Zone in Part 2.
507----
508* BadassInANiceSuit: They've killed 200 people including politicians and police officers, wear sharp suits and [[MaskPower various oversized masks]].
509* FantasticRacism: Anybody who isn't an esper is a non-human that doesn't have the right to live.
510* FarEastAsianTerrorists: Of the [=ESP=] variety.
511* InsaneTrollLogic: They declare that any esper who does not automatically join their ranks is a traitor, even if the esper in question was being attacked with lethal force as a non-esper the day before, the front is targeting their friends and family, or the esper in question is compulsory enrolled in an academy that supposedly teaches espers how to control their powers so they're not a threat to ''themselves'' never mind being a threat to others. Furthermore, the best way to counter esper based discrimination, based on well-justified fear and suspicion is to set off bombs in public establishments thereby giving non-espers even ''more'' reason to fear and suspect them.
512* NebulousEvilOrganization[=/=]StandardEvilOrganizationSquad
513* UnwittingPawn: They were being used to set off a Nuclear Bomb and lure in the people who kidnapped the Professor.
514[[/folder]]
515
516[[folder:Sairo]]
517!'''Sairo'''
518The ESP Liberation Front's hitman. Wears a mask of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis Anubis]], the Egyptian god of death.
519----
520* ShoutOut: {{Youkai}}: Dog mask aside, his high-speed knife attacks are similar to a [[http://www.obakemono.com/obake/kamaitachi/ kama-itachi (sickle weasel)]].
521* SuperSpeed: His power.
522* YouHaveFailedMe: Murders [[spoiler: the group of esper high-schoolers they paid to riot at the ESP academy after they failed to cause any damage, got their powers taken away, were caught by the authorities, and were about to snitch on the the organization]].
523[[/folder]]
524
525!!Other Characters
526
527[[folder:Edoyama]]
528!'''Edoyama'''
529->Voiced by: Creator/JojiNakata (Japanese), Brian Mathis (English)
530
531Murasaki's father, the Yakuza boss.
532----
533* {{Expy}}: He looks so much like Leonidas from ''300'' that he's basically a ShoutOut.
534* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He dies due to gunshot wounds in the second season.]]
535* PapaWolf
536* {{Yakuza}}: The boss of the Yakuza, no less.
537
538[[/folder]]
539
540[[folder:Rei]]
541!'''Rei Oozora'''
542->Voiced by: Creator/FuyukaOura (Japanese), Linda Leonard (English)
543
544Ayumu's mother and a member of the Diet, the Japanese Congress. She hates espers.
545----
546* FantasticRacism: Until her own son was revealed to be one and saved her life.
547* {{Gonk}}
548* HeelFaceTurn: Despite hating espers, she eventually turns around and tries to help them.
549* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: Since she views all espers as criminals, this is the inevitable result of finding out her son is one of them.
550* {{Muggle}}
551* ParentalObliviousness: At first.
552
553[[/folder]]
554
555[[folder:Nabeshima]]
556!'''Nabeshima'''
557->Voiced by: Yoshito Yasuhara (Japanese), Greg Dulcie (English)
558
559The head of the police force who used to work with Ken, Rinka's father.
560----
561* BadassNormal: He, along with the other cops, also received martial arts training from Master Yoda.
562* FunnyAfro: A big one.
563* {{Gonk}}
564* GoodCopBadCop: The Good Cop to Torada's Bad Cop, though the two never meet.
565* SupportingLeader: Helps [[spoiler: storm the Diet building with Rinka and several other cops in full riot gear]].
566* ReassignedToAntarctica: [[spoiler: He ends up being reassigned to a remote island in the second part, as a punishment.]]
567
568[[/folder]]
569
570[[folder:Torada]]
571!'''Torada'''
572->Voiced by: Jin Domon (Japanese), Daniel Penz (English)
573
574Head of the Esper Taskforce.
575----
576* CombatPragmatist: Due to his use of tranquilizers.
577* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Dies after the ARES board starts going wild.]]
578* FantasticRacism: He doesn't care if you're a good guy or not, even if you don't have powers anymore. To drive the point, he detains Rinka when her powers were lost.
579* GoodCopBadCop: The Bad Cop to Nabeshima's Good Cop.
580* RabidCop
581* SWATTeam: Most of the men in the taskforce. They don't do well against [=ESP=]ers.
582* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: He "awakens" and gets esper powers of illusion similar to The Professor.]]
583
584[[/folder]]
585
586[[folder:Merayama]]
587!'''Merayama'''
588An esper that fought Rinka at the beginning of the series, who worked under the Professor. She encounters him again later.
589----
590* BroughtDownToNormal: He is one of the first victims of Peggy's power.
591* DelinquentHair: The top of his head is dyed.
592* EasilyForgiven: He killed multiple innocent people and burned down Rinka's house, and she still helps him and they eventually fight alongside each other.
593* HotBlooded
594* HumblePie
595* {{Jerkass}}: At first, until he is constantly beat up by the other inmates. He comes around after Rinka saves him.
596* KillItWithFire
597* PlayingWithFire: He used to be a pyrokinetic esper, but Peggy got him.
598* PyroManiac
599* TakingTheBullet: Takes Lin's 100-Pace Spirit Punch for Rinka, after Rinka saves him from the other [[{{Delinquent}} Delinquents]] in the boxing ring.
600
601[[/folder]]
602
603[[folder:Mr. Pompadour]]
604!'''Mr. Pompadour'''
605A {{Delinquent}}. He is also an esper and a professional boxer, and has the ability to make force fields.
606----
607* BarrierWarrior: Has this power.
608* {{Delinquent}}
609* DelinquentHair: Has a pompadour.
610* {{Jerkass}}: At first.
611* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
612* NoNameGiven
613[[/folder]]

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